INDEPENDENT LENS

TWO SPIRITS

MONDAY, JUNE 10 @ 8:00PM

Two Spirits interweaves the tragic story of a mother’s loss of her son with a revealing look at the largely unknown history of a time when the world wasn’t simply divided into male and female and many Native American cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders.

Fred Martinez was nádleehí, a male-bodied person with a feminine nature, a special gift according to his ancient Navajo culture. He was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at 16. Two Spiritsexplores the life and death of this boy who was also a girl, and the essentially spiritual nature of gender.

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